All articles by Greenpeace European Unit
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EU deforestation law to be delayed as new threat emerges from EU-Mercosur trade deal
The EU's deforestation law will be delayed after right-wing attempts to gut it failed, but the EU-Mercosur trade deal could still deal the deforestation law a fatal blow
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Toxic EU Mercosur trade deal agreed
Greenpeace calls on all policy-makers throughout Europe and Mercosur countries to listen to the widespread public opposition and vote against this toxic trade deal.
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EU and Mercosur negotiators reportedly reach deal on disastrous trade agreement: Greenpeace comment
EU governments and relevant parliaments must have a chance to scrutinise and vote on the disastrous EU-Mercosur free trade deal
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Deforestation law: EU governments reject chaotic amendments sought by MEPs
EU governments have rejected a set of amendments that the European Parliament voted for last week and which would dramatically weaken the EU deforestation law.
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Deforestation law: the dismantling of the EU Green Deal has begun, but it can be stopped
Greenpeace is calling on the European Commission to withdraw its proposal to delay the EU deforestation regulation, to prevent further damage after MEPs voted to critically weaken the law.
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EPP fiddles while forests burn
The European People's Party is seeking last-minute changes that would make a mess of the EU's deforestation law, one of the big wins from the EU Green Deal
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Media briefing: the EU and the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia
Greenpeace European Unit media briefing, October 2024
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225 global groups say “Hands off the EU deforestation regulation!”
Global civil society groups urge the European Parliament and national EU governments to vote down the plan to delay the EU's deforestation law by one year
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“Von der Leyen might as well have wielded the chainsaw herself”, EU forest law delay
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced a one-year delay to the application of a crucial law to protect the world's forests from the impacts of European consumption.
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“Cruel” trade loopholes let European companies export toxic products banned from EU market
More than 100 organisations call on the EU to close "hypocritical, cruel unfair and intolerable" trade loopholes.